{{Short description|First Nations artist from Quebec (born 1974)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Nadia Myre | honorific_suffix = RCA | image = File:Nadia Myre. 2.jpg | image_size = | alt = Nadia Myre | caption = Nadia Myre, 2010 | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1974}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation and Canadian | education = {{hlist|Camosun College|Emily Carr University of Art and Design|Concordia University}} | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | awards = {{awd|Sobey Art Award|2014}} | website = {{url|nadiamyre.net}} | module = }} '''Nadia Myre''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (born 1974) is a contemporary visual artist from Quebec and an Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg First Nation, who lives and works in Montreal. For over a decade, her multi-disciplinary practice has been inspired by participant involvement as well as recurring themes of identity, language, longing and loss.<ref name="About">{{cite web|title=About|url=http://www.nadiamyre.net/about/|website=Nadia Myre|accessdate=June 13, 2015|archive-date=February 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124407/http://www.nadiamyre.net/about/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Of the artist, ''Canadian Art'' Magazine writes, "Nadia Myre's work weaves together complex histories of Aboriginal identity, nationhood, memory and handicraft, using beadwork techniques to craft exquisite and laborious works."<ref name="CanadianArtProfile">{{cite news|title=Nadia Myre|url=http://canadianart.ca/artists/nadia-myre/|accessdate=25 February 2017|work=Canadian Art}}</ref>
Myre is one of the co-founders of ''daphne,'' the first Indigenous artist-run centre in Québec, along with Skawennati, Caroline Monnet, and Hannah Claus.<ref name="Dunlevy 2020">{{Cite web|last=Dunlevy|first=T'Cha|date=2020-11-19|title=Introducing daphne, Montreal's first Indigenous artist-run centre|url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/local-arts/introducing-daphne-montreals-first-indigenous-artist-run-centre|access-date=2021-02-04|website=Montreal Gazette|language=en-CA}}</ref>
==Education== Myre graduated from Camosun College (1995), completing a Fine Art associate degree. She graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (1997), completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). She earned her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Concordia University (2002).<ref name="About"/><ref name="OOA - Myre, Nadia">{{citation|title=Myre, Nadia|work=Benezit Dictionary of Artists|publisher=Oxford Art Online|year=2017}}</ref>
==Works and exhibitions== thumb|(Video Still). Interview of artist Nadia Myre speaking about her exhibition and commission Edinburgh Printmakers and Edinburgh Art Festival 2022 She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including, "Cont[r]act" at OBORO, Montréal (2002),<ref>{{cite web|title=2001-2002 Season|url=http://www.oboro.net/en/season/2001-2002|website=Oboro|accessdate=June 13, 2015|archive-date=September 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912174003/http://www.oboro.net/en/season/2001-2002|url-status=dead}}</ref> "Skin Tissue" at the National Museum of American Indian, New York (2010), ''Tout ce que reste - Scattered Remains'' at Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal/The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2018).<ref>{{cite web|title=HIDE: Skin as Material and Metaphor|url=http://nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/hide/scar_tissue.html|website=nmai.si|publisher=National Museum of the American Indian|accessdate=June 13, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/past/nadia-myre/|title=Nadia Myre|website=The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-08}}</ref> Myre has also participated in many notable group shows including; "The American West" at Compton Verny Gallery, London, United Kingdom;<ref>{{cite web|title=The American West|url=http://www.comptonverney.org.uk/events/51/the_american_west.aspx|website=Compton Verney|publisher=The Compton Verney Gallery|accessdate=June 13, 2015|archive-date=February 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209180208/https://www.comptonverney.org.uk/events/51/the_american_west.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> "All Our Relations" for the 2012 Sydney Biennale, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia;<ref>{{cite web|title=18th Biennale of Sydney (2012)|url=https://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/about-us/history/2012-2/|website=Biennale of Sydney|accessdate=June 13, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402195838/https://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/about-us/history/2012-2/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and "Social Factory" for the Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China.<ref>{{cite web|title=Social Factory|url=http://www.biennialfoundation.org/2014/09/the-exhibition-social-factory-inspires-us-to-reflect-on-how-our-industrialized-and-modernized-society-influences-culture/|website=Biennale Foundation|accessdate=June 13, 2015}}</ref>
A trilogy of works by Myre were commissioned for Pimisi station of the Ottawa O-Train: ''Pimisi/eel, woven basket, and birch forest fence''. They were unveiled in 2019.
=== "Indian Act" === Inspired by her mother's own story of reclaiming her Native Status,<ref name="Historica">{{cite web|title=Nadia Myre|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nadia-myre/|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|publisher=Historica Canada|accessdate=25 February 2017|language=en|date=2015}}</ref> Myre created "Indian Act," in reference to Canada's federal Indian Act of 1876. The piece uses beadwork to recreate all 56 pages of the statute. With red beads representing the negative space of the page, and white beads representing the typed words,<ref name="50K">{{cite news|title=Nadia Myre Wins $50K Sobey Art Award - Canadian Art|url=http://canadianart.ca/news/nadia-myre-sobey-art-award/|accessdate=25 February 2017|work=Canadian Art|date=19 November 2014}}</ref> the piece creates a visual which Canadian Art called "immensely successful."<ref name="CanadianArtProfile" /> The final work "reappropriated and denounced this artifact of colonialism."<ref name="Historica" /> The work also has a strong collaborative element, as Myre enlisted the help of over 200 people<ref name="50K" /> to aid in the completion of the beadwork. Beadwork was more traditionally regarded as a women's art form, but Myre invited men, non-Aboriginal, and others to contribute.<ref name="Maclaren art Myre" /> The piece was part of the 2002 exhibition "Cont[r]act."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artmur.com/en/artists/nadia-myre/indian-act/|title=Indian Act {{!}} Art Mur|website=artmur.com|access-date=2016-03-05}}</ref> It was also featured in the book "Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art."<ref>{{Cite book|title = Sakahàn: international indigenous art|last1 = Hill|first1 = Greg A|last2 = Hopkins|first2 = Candice|last3 = Lalonde|first3 = Christine|last4 = National Gallery of Canada|date = 2013-01-01|publisher = National Gallery of Canada|isbn = 9780888849120|location = Ottawa|oclc = 822646597|language = English}}</ref>
===The Scar Project=== In 2004, Myre started The Scar Project. Begun as a personal exploration of her own scars, the project grew into a cooperative endeavor.<ref>{{cite web|title=Scar Tissue|url=http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/hide/scar_tissue.html|website=National Museum of the American Indian|accessdate=24 September 2015}}</ref> She organized workshops for people to create their own scar canvases and write their personal stories. Participants are invited to sew their ‘scars’, metaphorical or literal, onto piece of 10″ square canvas and share the story of how they were hurt, by whom, and who they hurt and how.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Myre|first1=Nadia|title=The Scar Project|url=http://artmur.com/en/artists/nadia-myre/the-scar-project-2/|website=Art Mur}}</ref> The Scar Project includes contributions by more than 1,400 people from Canada, the United States and Australia gathered over eight years.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mclaughlin|first1=Bryne|title=4 Questions for Sobey Winner Nadia Myre|url=http://canadianart.ca/features/nadia-myre-qa/|website=Canadian Art|accessdate=24 September 2015}}</ref>
=== "Portrait in Motion" === In a video (2002, mini DV transferred to DVD), Myre can be seen paddling a canoe on a lake. The video has been described as “elusive, metaphorical union of past, present, nature, culture and soul” and "appropriates the stereotype of the Indian living in harmony with nature and lets a woman emerge from the mist, in total control of her boat, of her life".<ref name="Maclaren art Myre">{{cite web|last1=Tougas|first1=Colette|title=The Truly Made Things of Nadia Myre|url=https://maclarenart.com/sites/default/files/documents/nmyre_needleworks_brochure_final.pdf|website=maclarenart.com|accessdate=21 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="OOA - Myre, Nadia"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nadiamyre.net/|title=Nadia Myre|website=Nadiamyre.net}}</ref>
==Awards and recognition== Myre is a recipient of numerous awards. She is a recipient of Prix Louis-Comtois (2021),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clément |first=Éric |date=2021-11-27 |title=Prix Louis-Comtois et Pierre-Ayot: Nadia Myre et Myriam Dion récompensées |trans-title=Louis-Comtois and Pierre-Ayot Prize: Nadia Myre and Myriam Dion rewarded |language=fr-CA |work=La Presse |url=https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/2021-11-27/prix-louis-comtois-et-pierre-ayot/nadia-myre-et-myriam-dion-recompensees.php |access-date=2023-03-18}}</ref> the Compagne des arts et des lettres du Québec (2019),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nadia Myre, Compagne des arts et des lettres du Québec |trans-title=Nadia Myre, Companion of arts and letters of Quebec |url=https://www.calq.gouv.qc.ca/actualites-et-publications/actualites/nadia-myre-oalq-2019 |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec |language=fr-CA}}</ref> the Banff Centre for Arts Walter Phillips Gallery Indigenous Commission Award (2016), and the Sobey Art Award (2014), Canada's largest award for young artists. She was also nominated for the award in 2011, 2012 and 2013.<ref name="50K" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.banffcentre.ca/articles/banff-centre-arts-and-creativity-commissions-new-video-work-indigenous-artist-nadia-myre|title=Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity commissions new video work by Indigenous artist Nadia Myre|website=Conseil des Arts de Montréal|language=en|access-date=2019-02-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsmontreal.org/fr/nouvelles/2011-10-30/pratt-whitney|title=Les Prix Pratt & Whitney Canada du Conseil des arts de Montréal décernés à Nadia Myre et Thomas Kneubühler|trans-title=The Pratt & Whitney Canada Prizes of the Conseil des arts de Montréal awarded to Nadia Myre and Thomas Kneubühler|website=www.artsmontreal.org|access-date=2019-02-08}}</ref> Myre is also the recipient of the Pratt & Whitney Canada's ‘Les Elles de l’art’ for the Conseil des arts de Montréal (2011), Quebec Arts Council's "Prix à la création artistique pour la region des Laurentides" (2009), and a Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum (2003).<ref name="CanadianArtProfile" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artmur.com/en/artists/nadia-myre/|title=Nadia Myre|website=Art Mur|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-08}}</ref>
She has received accolades from the New York Times,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Ken|title=Beyond Stereotypes: 21st-Century Indian Artists|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/arts/design/20remi.html?_r=0|accessdate=June 13, 2015|work=New York Times|date=June 20, 2008}}</ref> Le Monde, The Washington Post,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gopnik|first1=Blake|title=New 'Vantage Point' show at American Indian museum shows off symbolic power|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/07/AR2010100707690.html|accessdate=June 13, 2015|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 10, 2010}}</ref> Le Devoir,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Delgado|first1=Jerome|title=Exposition - Mohawks, Cheyennes, Algonquins... et artistes|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/340759/exposition-mohawks-cheyennes-algonquins-et-artistes|accessdate=June 13, 2015|publisher=Le Devoir|date=June 20, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Delgado|first1=Jerome|title=Nadia Myre, dernière Québécoise en lice pour le Sobey|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/410120/arts-visuels-nadia-myre-derniere-quebecoise-en-lice-pour-le-sobey|accessdate=June 13, 2015|publisher=Le Devoir|date=June 5, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Delgado|first1=Jerome|title=Nadia Myre reçoit le prix Sobey|trans-title=Nadia Myre receives the Sobey Award|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/424407/arts-visuels-nadia-myre-recoit-le-prix-sobey|accessdate=June 13, 2015|publisher=Le Devoir|date=November 20, 2014}}</ref> and has been featured in ARTnews, American Craft Magazine, ETC, Parachute, ''Canadian Art'',<ref name="50K" /><ref>{{cite news|last1=McLaughlin|first1=Byrne|title=4 Questions for Sobey Prize Winner Nadia Myre|url=http://canadianart.ca/features/nadia-myre-qa/|accessdate=June 13, 2015|publisher=Canadian Art|date=December 12, 2014}}</ref> C Magazine, Monopol, and ESSE.
In 2012, she became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rca-arc.ca/rca-member-nadia-myre-recipient-of-2014-sobey-art-award/|publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts|title=Nadia Myre|accessdate=7 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=New Members|url=http://rca-arc.ca/who-we-are/members/new-members/|website=Canadian Academy of Arts|publisher=The Canadian Academy of Arts|accessdate=June 13, 2015|archive-date=December 31, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231095659/http://rca-arc.ca/who-we-are/members/new-members/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2025, she was the recipient of the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas.<ref>[https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2206713/prix-quebec-celine-galipeau-france-castel "Prix du Québec 2025 : Céline Galipeau et France Castel parmi les lauréats"]. Ici Radio-Canada, November 10, 2025.</ref>
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